Presented on various occasions since 2000, this is a lecture given to new graduate students on how to prepare slides for their presentations. Frequently, students use excessive animation, incorrect colors, too many slides and engage in other distracting activities during their lectures. The slides in this seminar show how to best use Powerpoint. Good and bad example slides are shown. Obviously, it is difficult to understand all the issues from just reviewing the slides, but it is a good start. There is even a video of an example presention given several years ago.

Presentation 101: Keys to a Quality Talk

A modified presentation is now available that is focused at scientists - not just graduate students - so this one is the one you give your professors when you see what a terrible job they do in giving lectures or presenting their work!!! Perhaps you can suggest your postdoc review this version.